What do children between the age of the 6 and 1 O think about death?

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1999-12-31

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Viñas, F., & Domenech-Llaberia, E. (1999). What do children between the age of the 6 and 1 O think about death?. Revista De Psiquiatría Infanto-Juvenil, (4), 229–234. Retrieved from https://aepnya.eu/index.php/revistaaepnya/article/view/528

Issue

No. 4 (1999): October-December

Section

Orginial article

Authors

  • F. Viñas Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
  • E. Domenech-Llaberia Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Keywords:

Death, concept, childhood

Abstract

The notion of death has assessed among the school children aged between 6 and 10. This has been valued, in a random sample, the grade of acquiring in each one of the components regarding the idea of death: universal, irreversible and cessation of corporal process. The analysis of the data suggest that the understanding of the subconcepts of irreversibility and universal is prior to suspension of the corporal process. Likewise, some children between the age of 7-8 have the same perception of death as the adult.

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